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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES H. TALLMADGE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNQR, BY MESNE AS$IGNMENT$ 'TO WILLIAM B. HEATH, 0F BUFFALO, IIEYTI' YORK,

MEANE? AGCGUIQ'TING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed December 30, 1967. Serial No. 408,569.

T 0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, CruilLris H. TALL' MADGE, a citizen of the'United- States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cool; and State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Means for Accounting, (Case 6,) of which the following is a, full, clear, concise, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part oi this.

' of .the amount of elapsing time, tygiically rcsultingin a siinple one-way registration or indication Which starts at Zero and steadily increases to the full amount of the period, either continuously or by a succession of uniform increments. In the other, each period'is ascertained by usin an arbitrary starting point, commonly-mi night for the shorter periods, as the basis typically for two registrations or entries of opposing natures; the firstone, for example, practically debiting a Workman with the amount of his beginning'time, say eight hours (at eight ocloclr), and the second one crediting him with the amount of his closing time, say twelve hours (at 'noon),from which on- .posed data may be subsequently calculated his net credit of four hours for actual workin g time, without directly noting the lapsing.

Although various mechanical aids have o e en employed in' tinienccounting, they leave much to hedesired. here beginning and closing times only are recorded, sub equent nettation is necessary to determine the working time; and where iapsing. time is registered directly it must usually be trans. lated from indicators or dials, couuz'ionly one dial for the hours and another for toe minutes. Subsequently, in either ca e, some I rate totalization must be performed to eachworkmans time for several periods and separate extension to get hiswages, and.

still other totalizations to get the total time and Wages of several Worknien employed in a department or at a particular job or operation. Most of these nettatii'zns, translations, extensions, suinniatie s, etc, are peirly subject to error, i. luenll involvout ing the use of the mixed scale of time-noun tron, its translation into the straight decimal Patented Jan. 29., i 5)] 4 dollar scale and the repeated handling of detached and scattered d a. hose fill;- seqnent operations are usually mentally, and even where the use of mechanical aids is extended to them uch we commonly involves repealed inspection or other volitional handling of the original or derived data.

Qne of the general objects of my invenki l i l lll u i tion is to-secure and indicate the data. in an improved manner, as, fez-example, by show ing the actual time worked directly in hours and decimals of an hour, thus avoiding the necessity "tor reading from pointers and dials or calculating upon the basis ot'hcginning and closing time.

A further general object of my in *nliou Vt is the improved means for handling the data, as, for example, the summation of a plurality of periods for an individual .Y()ll\'- man, the summation of a plurality of periods for a lurality of workmen, the translation of a \vorlnnzaus time into Wages, sic.

Furthermore, my invention provides for the mechanical and current summation and translation of 10 data, thereby reducing labor and se uring more accurate and prompt results than by the means of the prior art.

In carrying out the objects of my invention, as above stated, 1 proter to employ thefirst of ti e two general methods aoove indicated; namelv. the one-way l;1p-uti u1-m ting method. T simpler and more direct method may he made to yield aluable rurrentv infrrmation, which is not so easily the case wi ii the method which depends upon two entries of opposed data from which the net working time must he calculated 4): derived.

"lhe' fundamental underlying idea upon which the present invention is based will perhaps he: most clearly understood by reference to the :u'companyino' chart or dim gram, Figure I), in which the column li smled Men shows a plurality of workmen,

headed In and Out respectively.

oclock in till eleven oclock out a A, B and G, who begin and stop work at the hours noted iii the adjoining column A represents graphically, from 0 to 4, the steadily increasing lapsation of As working time in the forenoon, from seven total of four hours; and, from-0 to 3, the similar registration of his time in the afternoon, from two oclock till five, a total of three hours. B and G similarly represent the lapsation of the working periods of B and G,- respectively from eight oclock till nine and from ten oclock till twelve, in the forenoon, with totals of one hour and two hours, respectively and, for the afternoon,- from one oclock till six, and from three'till four, respectively, with afternoon totals of five hours and one hour, respectively. These results are secured by methods and means of the prior art,rudimentarily by means of the stop watch; and, as applied to timekeeping, by means of the 'c'alculagraph (although it should be kept in mind that the latter device does, notprovide for a second registrationor an inspection of the current registration Without practically bringing the period to a close; that none of the registrationsare visible in the machine but'only on the card, and that the indications of the machine itself can not be intelligently connect- .ed with the amount of any of the periods which it registers.) It will be noted that neither of these three graphic records represents the registration of the total of a workmans forenoon and afternoon periods, and I am not aware that it is in the prior art to secure this registration mechanically. My first step, therefore, has been to provide for this simple totalization, represented at At, 136 and Gt, where, to describe one only, At shows As forenoon record as before, four hours from seven oclock till eleven; but, instead of starting from 0 in the afternd'on, itstarts whre the forenoons registration ended, that is, at 4 (equivalent to four), and adds the three hours (from. two oclock till five)-to the four hours, making total of seven hours for-the day. Similarly with Bi and Ct, mutatz's mutandz's. 4

ABGs is, a graphic representation of the" totalization, or the synthesization, as I prefer to call it in this connection, of the six more or less intercurrent periods worked by A, B and G for the day, in which the perpendicular dotted line wg represents zero, and the lines at right angles to it represent the total amount of time worked bythe three men at the hours shown at the left of the figure, the increment during the last eceding hour being represented by a full inean'd the balance of the total registration by the dotted portion of the line. These amounts are also indicated by the numbers 1, 3, 4, Q, Z, etc., at the extreme right. The

varying inclination of the broken line 0 l v 16 from the perpendicular represents the varying rate of the synthesized lapsation; for while the inclined lines at the left are uniform in their inclination for all worklng men at any g ven hour, and are also uniform at all Working hours for any given man, the synthesizing line 0 7 16" represents the varying rate of the combined oclock G begins work, thus again raising the rate under ABGs to double. At eleven oclock A stops, rendering'the ABGs rate unitary again, to agree with the single rate of the one working man G; and at noon, when G stops work and the lapsation .of the time with which he is to be credited ceases,

the inclination of the ABGs line drops tozero, with'a' synthesized indication of the time of A, B and G, seven hours, to agree with the several total individual lapsations of time, namely, four, one and two hours. Following the noon interval B commences work at one oclock, A at two oclockand G at three oclock, and the section of the ABGs line from 7 to 13 indicates the corresponding changes in the rate and amount of the synthesized lapsation. This line from 13 to 16. indicates also the changes in the rate and amount of the synthetic lapsation which accompanies or results from the cessation of work by the several men.

The synthetic character of the lapsation represented by ABGs is more clearly contracted with the mere totals at Art, Bt and Gtwhen we consider the'results at the close of the day, when At shows a total of seven hours, Bt six hours and Gt three hours, while ABGs shows a grand total of 'with the entries with which the specific registers are being involved, one particular embodiment of means for carrying out my invention as herein described will be readily understood. In general, this mechanism in volves a plurality of primary or specific entry-receiving devices or registers, each as-' signed to a particular Workmans tim acmenses to deal with a lapsation Which is constant and uniform, it is not necessary for practical purposes that the registrations or entries should he strictly continuous as dis iting luished from intermittent registrations for entries, provided the intervals are suiticiently minute and regular. Means is provided for connecting any or the primary I registers with the common actuating shaft 15- When the Workman comes in and for discon necting the register when he goes out. The rotating shaft therefore involves an connected register with an entry proportional to the period of time during which the register is connected, each entry being mechanically and automatically added to the pieced ing entries. These registers provide all times a direct reading indication of the amount of time with which every worlt nhas been credited. The totalization of tee wortmens time may go on -for the eriod of a day or a Wcelcora month. before the register is set hack to zero, if, indeed, it he set back at all.

synthetic register may be "proportional the sum of the entries in all the opera tively connected primary or specific ters, no matter how the rate of operation. 0 the common actuating means ma vary prefer to drive the synthetic register from the common actuating means but through the medium of mechanism for varying the ratioof connection so that the rate at which the synthetic register is driven play corr spond at all times with the to of the rates with which the'primary registers are concurrently being involved. It, as in this case, the rates at which the individual'or specific registers are actuated are equal during any given concurrence. the rate of actuatinct the generic register must he multiple of its unitary For example, the actuation of two specific registers at the same rate will require a two-fold rate of actuation tor the generic register; if there are three equal. concurrent individual registrations the ratio of the total registration must In order that the entry in th generic be three-fold-still integral, andso on for any number of equal concurrent individual registrations. The synthesis-mg ratio must he variant with varying; concurrenccs. It is a'prac'tical problem to insure that when the concurrence changes, that is, in this case, when a'diiiering number of equald r islrat-ions are concurring. the 1-J' 2 totalingrw'stration shall a with the numb-er o5 inoi f lVhile this requirement "-victed whereby the connection of an present emhodimentof the means of my inyention a system of change gears, the employment of each set serving to connect the common actuating means in a diileroritwalio with the gen ric register. Means is pro.

y individual register with the ctuating shalt automaticthrows into service the set of gearing whose ratio corresponds with the numhenotindividual registers operatively connected with the actuating shaft.

It is desirable in some species of registrations to have associated secondary or ter tiary registrations in association, each secondary or tertiary register mechanically be ing' such case connected with its primary in a more or less permanent ra tioot-her than that of equality. it is not necessary nor always desirable that the secondary or tertiary regis ration shall he at the same ratio to its primary ii the case of diiierent pris, for example, a se-ies of sec- 'ers may he associated with the carry registers to take account of the worlmens Wages. in case one workman is paid twenty cents, another twenty-five cents another fifty cents per hour, the primary registrations (0i time) must he the same for all workmen .ig a concurrence of registrations, out-t c ndary registrat O wages) ,i; i dilerent. To provide this 1 wages associate each individual (H116 register a wage ter operatively connected with and actu t by the common actuating means'either directly or t rough the primary register.-

lhcse registers are so adjusted by gearing or otherwise that the desired ratio between the time and the wage registration.

may prevail in each Workmans pair irrespective of the ratio of any other pair.

The secondary registers being preferably operated only in association withtheir respective primaries and the primaries only in'associatir'in with the generic or synthetic register, the preferred method for returning any of them to Zero is by reversing the direction of operation of the actuating means (disconnecting the clock-controlling move ment) and operating the actuating and t ansmittiu ii means manually or otherwise with the required primaries connected until the desired reduction to zero clt'ected, li'hen hy this method all of the primaries are cleared and their indications reduced to zero, the generic register will have hceu returned also to its zero position;

The details of this mechanism for carrying out my invention are illustrated in the :uoompanyinn' drawings. in which- Figure 1 is a troutelevation of a nunihcr of the individual ininiury rcf istcrs. their asso ciated secondary registers and the com men actuating means and connectors; i a front elevation of the. generic or r registers and the mechanism for cont-rolling the rate of their actuation; Fig. 8 is a crosssectional viewtaken in the direction of the arrows on line 3 3 of Fig. l, and Fig. 1 is a cross-sectional view taken in the direction of the arrows on the line 14: of Fig. 2.

The individual primary registers numbered 1, 2 and 7 (the registers 3, 1, 5 and (3 and their associated mechanism being omitted from the drawing as indicated) are as-- connect theassociated driving gears with the driving shaft. These connecting clutches are controlled by the workmen as they enter and leave. It will be noted that each connecting clutchis governed by the controlling lever 17. Associated with each controlling lever there is a cam lever 18. The extension 19 at the inner end of the cam lever serves'when the cam lever is in the normal position (as shown in association with registers 2 and 7 to force the associated controlling lever '17 toward the right, thus disengaging the associated connecting clutch from the driving gear. WV hen, however, the cam lever is thrown into its alternative position, as in the case of register No. 1, the extension 19 is moved into a position such that the spring of the clutch may force the clutch into engagement with the driving gear 14, whereupon the motion of the actuating shaft 10 will be transmitted through the gearing to the primary register. The operation of this part of the mechanism of my invention requires that each workman upon entering in the morning throw his cam lever from the normal position into the operativeiposition, thereby connecting his time register,with 'the common actuating shaft. Thereafter each of the connected registers will be driven at a preferably constant and uniform rate, thus involving each register with an entry of the amount'of time which elapses before the termination o'fthe period by the return of the associated cam lever to its normal position upon the workmans leaving.

Associated with the time registers there are Wage registers, numbered respectively 110, 2w, 720. These registers are operatively connected. by the gear whee1s20, 20, the ratio of gearing corresponding with the rate of-wages'. Thus, for example, the ratio of the gearing connecting registers 2 and 2w corresponds with the rate of twenty cents an hour, the ratio between gearing connecting registers 1 and 1w correspondswith the rate of twenty-five cents an hour, while the ratio of gearing connecting registers '7 and 720 corresponds with the rate of fifty cents per hour, The apparatus is shown in its condition at the close of a day, six p. m. The indication of $1.5!) in the wage register 7w corresponds to six hours as indicated in the time register No- 1, multiplied into the rate of wages of twenty-five cents per hour. The indication of $1.40 in the wage register 2w corresponds with As seven hours at twenty cents per hour, and the indication of $1.50 in the wage register To; corresponds with Gs three hours at fifty cents per hour.

In considering now the synthesizing or generic register or registers and the mechanism for actuating them at a rate proportional to the number, of specific or individual registers which may be connected with the common actuating means, reference may be had to Fig. 2. It will be noted that the common actuating shaft 10 terminates in a gear wheel 30, which is in mesh with a similar gear wheel 31, fixedly mounted upona counter shaft The generic or synthetic register 33 is adapted to be driven by any one of a number of sets of gears. Each of these sets comprises two gear wheels, one lettered 34, and loosely mounted upon the register driving shaft and the other let tered 36 and rigidly mounted to rotate with the counter shaft 32. The set of gears marked 17' is adapted to connect the actuating shaft 10 with the register driving shaft 35 at a one to one ratio. The set marked E2. establishes the connection'at a one to two ratio and so on to the final set 7. which establishe the connection at a. one to seven ratio, [1 friction clutch 37 is associated with each of the sets of gearing so that the actuation of any of these clutches will establish the operative connection of the synthetic register with the actuating shaft 10 at a ratio which depends upon the identity of the clutch which has been actuated. The selection of the clutch to be actuated in establishing this connection is automatically determined by the number of individual registers concurrently connected with the actuating shaft and the means which 1 have adopted for carrying out this purpose is as follows: A selecting shaft 4.0 is mounted just to .the rear of the cam levers 18. Ad jacent to each of the cam levers aspur wheel 4:1 is mounted upon the selecting shaft. Each of the cam levers is provided with a tooth 42 adapted mesh with the teeth of the as sociated spur wheel. will be apparent that when the cam lever No. 1 was moved from the out or normal position to the in or operative position, its gear tooth must have engaged with a tooth of the associated throwshis cam,'levcr with the actuating shaft causes spur wheel 41 to cause a one-eighth revolution of the spur wheel and the selecting shaft 4.0. So also if the cam lever 2 be moved from the out to the in position, another 'oneeighth revolution of the selecting shaft in the direction of the arrow 43 will. be caused. in like manner the connecting in of any workmans time register will cause a oneeighth revolution of the selecting shaft.

Referring now to the clutch-controlling mechanism for connecting the synthetic register in. proper ratio with the actuating shaft, as shown in Fig. 2, it will be seen that each clutch is controlled by a selecting lever 44, each lever being provided at its lower extremity with a roller coperati with an associated cam. The first of t cam disks {i6 is provided with a single elevated cam surface 47,.the second disk is provided with a similar cam surface, and so on to the seventh cam disk, but the cam disks are so fixed upon the selecting shaft that the angular position of the cam surfaces shall not correspond in any two of the disks. Under normal conditions, when none of the individual registers is connected with the actuating shaft the cam disks on the select ing shaft are all in positions such that the selective clutches are all released whereby the operative disconnection of the synthetic register from the actuating shaft maintained until some workman upon coming in from the normal into the in position. As previously explained, this connection of the workmans register a one-eighth revolution of: the selecting shaft, and such revolution is suiiicient to bring the first camdisk into a. position such that its cam will force the selective lever 44 to the left, thereby connecting the one to one set of the selective gears with the synthetic 'register. Thereupon the rotation of the common actuating shaft 10 will cause not only the entry of the hours in the Workmans individual registerbut will cause also the rotationcf the synthetic register shaft scan the same rate, thereby involving the syntl'ieticregister with the entry of the same number of hours as that recorded in the individual register. When, however, another clutch by virtue pf the cam second cam disk coming into a position such to the left. I vidual registers with the common actuating workman comes in and connects his individual register with the actuating shaft, an additional one-eighth revolution of the select- -ingshaft 40 is caused and such additional- .rotation' causes the disconnection of the one toone connection of the one to gear set but establishes the operative two gear seton account of the actuation of the associated surface on the as to throw the associated selective lover The connection of other indisha'ft causes in like manner a further rotadrive shaft 35 of the in, less than that of the other tion of the selecting shaft, thereby connect-- ing the synthetic register with th actuating shaft through that set of gcars-svhosc ratio corresponds with the number of indithis means provides that the rate at. which the synthetic register is driven shall correspond at all times with the number of individual registers concurrently in o oration due to their connection with the actuating shaft. The sixteen hours which have been recorded in the synthetic register is the total of the number of hours which have been entered in the individual registers during the day.

or more generic or synthetic registers, and I have indicated inFig. 2 an additional synthetic register 50, this register being connect- Q( with the drive shaft 35 of the main synthetic register 33 by means of the clutch 51. The hand wheel 52 'enables the clerk to release the connection at the clutch 51 and to turn the register mechanism back to zero. For example, it may be assumed that the register 50 was thus turned backto zero at the noon hour, whereupon its indication of nine hours at the close of the day corresponds with the total number of hours which have been Worked by all of the workmen during the afternoon; the other register having been started from zero in the morning indicates the total number of hours which have been worked by all of the men during the entire day. Manifestly, additional synthetic registers maybe connected in like manner for totalizing the registrations of all of the individual registers for greater or less lengths of time or for totalizing the registrations in. less than the whole number of registers.

In my present embodiment of this invention I have shown a manually operable crank attached to the counter shaft 32 for restoring the registers to the zero position, as at the close of a day, week or month. It will be apparent that if individual registers 1, 2 and 7 are all connected with the actuating shaft, and if after disconnecting the clock-controlled mechanism at 11 the crank 60 be operated to rotate the actuating shaft 10 in reverse direction, the register 7 will first be restored to zero, since its indication registers.

vidual registers connected with the actuating It is sometimes desirable to provide two Upon reaching the zero positionin register 1\o. T, the cam lever may be thrown to dis- 1 connect this register from the actuating shaft. The manual rotation of the actuating shaft may then be continued until the indication in register No. 1 has been reduced to zero, when it may be disconnected. A further backward rotation of the shaft will reduce the. indication in register No. 2 to zero. Since the selection of the sets of gears will be accomplished in the same manner during this backward revolution of the actuating shaft as during its forward revolution, the backward rotation and disconnection of the individual registers to restore them to zero will automatically, cause the restoration of the synthetic register to zero. In this connection itmay be noted that the auxiliary syn hetic register 50 may, if desired, be disconnected from the driving shaft during each backward revolut-idn of the actuating shaft, whereupon the subsequent connection of the auxiliary synthetic register after each restoration of the other registers to zero may be made to cause the auxiliary register to continue its totalization indefinitely, while the main synthetic register 33 is periodically restored to zero. Some of the more important advantages of this specific means for carrying out my invention are that an improved indication of a single period of elapsing time is secured, and this direct reading indication may be secured, no matter when the period commences or ends. Furthermore the indication of elapsed time is currently accessible for inspection or other accounting purposes, without bringing the period to a close. By means of my invention I secure a mechanical summation of two or more separated periods of work by an individual employee, each workmans total time being indicated upon his individual register. By means of the synthetic register and the selective operating mechanism I secure a mechanical summation of two or more intercurrent periods worked by several employees. The association of the Wage registers with the time registers provides a current mechanically extended indication of a workmans Wages for a single period andfor a number of periods.

While I have described in detail only the specific method of time-accounting, the scope of my invention is not to be so limited. While herein applied to the registration of time and other movements where the lapsing is constant and uniform in its rate, the general method herein disclosed is equally applicable to other registrations, summations and translations. I do not wish to limit myself, therefore, to the application of my invention to, time lapsations as distinguished from any other movements of a nature cssentially similar to that of time in respect to capacityfor measurement, translation or accounting by this method.

hat I claim as my invention is:

1. In combination, a plurality of dircctreading individual time-registers, each adapted to indicate the amount of its total actuations, a clock-controlled actuating mechanism, means "for connecting each of the individual registers with the actuating mechanism during the periods of time to be accounted in such register, a direct-reading individual wageregister associated with each time-register and operatively connected therewith in a predetermined gear ratio whereby the operation of any time register is accompanied with a corresponding operation of the associated wage register, a synthetic register, and means for automatically connecting said synthetic register with the actuating mechanism in a ratio corresponding with the sum of the rates of operation of one class of individual registers.

2. In combination, a plurality of direct] reading individual time registers each adapted to indicate the amount of. its total actuations, a clock controlled actuating mechanism, means for connecting each of the individual registers with the actuating mechanism during the periods of timeto be accounted in such register, a direct reading individual wage register associated with each time register, and gearing ofpredetermined ratio between each time register and the associated wage register.

3. In combination, a plurality of directreading individual timeregisters each adapted to indicate the amount of its total actuations, a clock controlled actuating mechanism, means for connecting each of the individual registers with the actuating mechanism during the periods of time to be accounted in such register, a synthetic register, and means for connecting the synthetic register with the actuating mechanism in various ratios corresponding with the varying number of individual time registers connected with the actuating mechanism.

4. In combination, a plurality of individual direct reading totalizing registers, each assigned to a diflerent workmans account, means for actuating any of said registers, a clock for controlling the degree of actuation of the registers, a synthetic register, and means for automatically connecting the synthetic register with the actuating means in a ratio of connection corresponding with the number of individual registers concurrently connected with the actuating means.

5. In combination, a plurality of individual registers, a common actual ing mechanism, means for connecting any of the individnal registers concurrently with the actuating mechanism, a synthetic register, a

15.111 combination, a plurality of individual time registers, a clock-governed mechanism for controlling the actuation of any of the time registers connected therewith, means for connectii'ig any of the. time reghters with the actuating mechanism, a wage register geared to each time register in the. ratio of the rate of Wages, and means for returning said registers to their zero positions. 1

16. In combination, a plurality of totalizing registers each assigned to a ditli'erent workmans account, a. uniforn'ily driven actuating mechanism, means for operatively coi'inecting any register with the actuating mechanism during the periods of time for which the workman to whom that register is assigned is to be credited. whereby each register will totalize the worlnnans credits as earned, and means for synthesizing the entries in all of said registers.

, 17.,In an accounting mechanism, the combination of a time controlled driving shaft, a pin alitv of individual registers associated therewith, means for operatively connect-ing any one of said registers or any number thereof with said shaft in a suitable transmission ratio, and a register for indicating the total amount of actuation of the respective individual registers.

18. In an accounting mechanism, the combination of a time controlled driving shaft, a plurality of individual registers associated therewith, means for operatively connecting any one of said registers or any number thereof with said shaft in a suitable transmission ratio, and a register for concurrently indicating the total amount of actuation of the respective individual registers.

19. In combination, a plurality of registers, mechanism for successively clearing said registers, and a t-otalizer for all the registers adapted to be operated when the registers are cleared.

20. In combination, a time cont-rolled driving mechanism, a plurality of time registers, a plurality of wage registers, means for selectively connecting desired ones of the registers with the time controlled driving mechanism, and a register for totalizing the actuations of the connected registers.

21. In combination, a time cont-rolled driving mechanism, a plurality of time registers, a plurality of wage registers, gearing of pre determined ratio bet-ween each time register and an associated wage register, means for selectively connecting desired ones of such registers, and a register for totalizing the actuations of the connected registers.

In combination, a time controlled driving mechanism, a plurality of wage registers having predetermined ratios of actuations relatively to the driving mechanism, and means for totalizing the actuations of such registers.

23. In combination, a driving member, a plurality of individual registers each having a separable operating connection of definite ratio with said member, a totalizing register, and mechanism between the totalizing register and the driving member for actuating the totalizing register proportionally to the sum of the actuations of the connected individual registers.

24. In combination, a driving member, a plurality of individual registers, a totalizing register, gearing between the driving memher and the totalizing register, and means for maintaining the ratio of said gearing proportional to the sum of the ratios ofthe connected individual registers.

' In witness whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name this 26th day of December A. D.

, CHARLES H. TALLMADGE. -Witnesses FRED. O. HEUSER, HARYEY L. HANSON.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. Washington, D. C.

plurality of normally idle sets of gesrs eecli adapted when thrown into service to connect yuthetic res "ster with the common actumechanism, said of gears having cineriug ratios of transmission, and means automatically controlled by the connection of the individual registers with the common. actuating mechanism for throwing into service that set of whose ratio of transmission corresponds Wlllllllfi number of in lividuul leglSlleIsCOllilQCtQfl with the setumechanism,

ister connected with each coneect reg}, register in the ratio or tiie rzi'teo 7, combination, a plurality o i l mdividuelregist rs, a syn actic re it nouns to ti-Jiduul reg cans for so iiietically actuating c "cg-isor at rate proportions. to and var In he nui'uher the individual registers con-- iirr'ently connected wi h the actuating nouns. 1

10. In combination, a plurality of individual registers, a synthetic register, a, uniformly dri en actuating mechanism, means 3 connecting one or more ot the individual. with the actuating mechanism, a raismissiou v s each adopted. 'synti ister with the u, and means for auto- 9 connecting maticsll" the synthetic register with he ectuutin mechanism through s transmission gear .aving a ratio of trans mission corresponding with the sum of the rates of actuation of the individual regisers.

ill. in combination, oplumlity of total" iriiug I ach assigned to a ditterent u'orlmiaifs account, a uniformly driven actuating mechanism, means for operatively connecting any. register with the actuatin meclienism during the periods of which the workman to whom that. act ister assigned is to be crcdicd, whereby each register will totelize the Workmans credits controlled actuating means adapted to transmit to any one or more of the individual Arne registers when opcratively connected tuecwitli the unitary rate of registration, no also adapted to transmit to the synthetic me register when operatively connected herewith any one of the integrally variant 121":3 of registration, and means for operatively connecting and disconnecting any one 1 or more of the individual time registers with the common actuating means, and simul taneously and ciutomaticelly-connecting and adjusting the synthetic time register to receive a multiple of the unit :y rate of registration correspoi'iding with the number of individual time registers concurrently in operative coimecti n Withthe col men actuating}; means. in combination, erupted to transmit; a

21- synthetic re ptctl to he ttClll" ated at u plurulityof din :iit one of them being unitaryand the other rates be ing integrally variant with respect to such unitary rate, a plurality of individual regisselecting u'ieaus in M try rate of uci i ster s nected with the actuating," means at a uni; tary rate of actuation, me lier operatively connecting a plurality of the individual isters with the actuating means for intercurreut registration each at the unitary rate, and automatic-means 't'or operatircly connecting the synthetic register with the actusting means to register at a unitary rate when one of the individual registers is opci etively connected with the actuating menu; and an incrementof an equal unitary ru for each of the other individuah l'egistcn concurrently op'eratircly connected with U actuating; means.

7.4;. in combination, a plurality of tOi'fill? ing registers each assigned to a different worlrnian'saccount, a uniformly driven at gunjiuq mechanism, means for operutivcly ectuig my 1 ister \Ylllt the actuating:

' mechanism (luring; the periods of time for which the mirlzman to whom that r-: ii.-tcr is assigned is to be credited, whereby each reg:- ister will totalizc the Worhmau's credit as earned, means for automatically syiit. ing the entrie in all of said register my;

' means for returning said I'Qglfltl'r; to lil 1 Zero positions.

registers, a. normally disconnected timeters each adapted to be actuated when con-- 

